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High Expectations
Another use for WD-40 – taking off McCain stickers
Obama victory leaves supporters with nothing to talk about
More funny goodness from The Onion:
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
And their last line about babies being named after Barack is coming true, except that people are actually naming their babies “Obama”.
Never give up, never surrender
The age of computerized online ad placement has resulted in some odd juxtapositions, like this article in Political Wire announcing that Gordon Smith has lost the Senate race in Oregon, accompanied by an ad asking you to vote for Smith. One also has to wonder why someone is running a “get out the vote” ad two days after the election. Maybe early voting was such a success they decided to try late voting?
Palin doesn’t know Africa is a continent
Social conservatives seem to want Palin to lead the Republican Party and run for president in 2012. Part of me would really like to see that happen (hee hee), while part of me really wants to never hear from or about her again.
UPDATE: This story gets even more complicated. A “Martin Eisenstadt” claimed that he was the source of the story about Palin not knowing Africa is a continent. Turns out that Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist, he is a fictional character made up by two filmmakers, and the mainstream media fell for it hook, line, and sinker! We still don’t know if the original story was true or not, but it does make you wonder.
UPDATE 2: Fox News is standing by their original story, that people associated with the McCain campaign told Fox News that Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent. Fox News never said it was (the fictional) Martin Eisenstadt.
Hackers and Spending Sprees
Newsweek has a fascinating article with inside information on the political campaigns of both Obama and McCain. Both campaigns allowed special reporters inside their campaigns in exchange for a promise that they would not report anything until after the election was over. Some interesting highlights:
- Palin’s shopping spree was worse than reported. One angry McCain aide called it “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast.”
- Both campaigns had their computer systems hacked by foreign entities, possibly Russian or Chinese.
- The Secret Service says that threats to Obama increased sharply as the crowds at Palin rallies became more stridently negative. Michelle even asked “Why would they try to make people hate us?”
- Steve Schmidt didn’t allow Palin to talk during the McCain’s concession speech last night.
- The McCain campaign knew they had effectively lost even before the last debate.
- Obama did not like doing debates. Obama even said “I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.'”
- During the GOP convention, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to Palin’s hotel room to brief her and she walked out of the bathroom wearing nothing but a towel.
- Hillary Clinton was on friendlier terms with McCain than with Obama, and Obama never seriously considered her as a running mate.
UPDATE: The Newsweek article linked to above is just a summary of part one of a seven part series called “How He Did It”. Part one itself can be found here. The remaining parts will be spread out over the next few days, and I can’t wait to read them.
Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job
The Onion, as usual, has the most twisted look at the election results.
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, “It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can’t catch a break.”
Final Update to Palin as President
Check out the final update to the “Palin as President” game.
Last Minute Election Humor
“According to all the studies, somewhere between 8% and 14% of voters are still undecided. Who are these morons? You know? This has been going on for what, four years. You don’t know. What, do you need another year to figure this out? Gee, I wonder where my candidate stands on UFO abductions? I’m going to wait.” -Jay Leno
“I saw that in the paper today, there was a kid [who said], ‘I still haven’t decided who I’m voting for.’ Still torn. 18 months was not enough. I’m going to find that guy and beat him to death with his shoe. That’s what I’m going to do.” -Conan O’Brien
“On the east coast, the polls open in seven hours. Very long lines are expected. If you’re not already lined up, it is too late. You have to wait until 2012. That’s true. But I’ll tell you something, I don’t think the lines are going to matter. This is a country that waits 18 hours on line for an iPhone. We’ll sit for three days in the rain to get Halo 2. We’ll camp out on the sidewalk for a week to get the first ticket to see a ‘Star Wars’ movie that we know is going to be crap. … If we can wait in line to see the Jonas brothers, then by God, I say we can wait in line to elect the next president of the United States.” -Jimmy Kimmel
“I understand the networks are playing it very, very cautiously. You know, they don’t want to show any favoritism. In fact, MSNBC announced today they’re not even going to declare Barack Obama the winner until after the votes are counted.” -Jay Leno
“Endorsements are important in a campaign. Even as late as we where now, endorsements are important. And John McCain was endorsed by Dick Cheney. Yeah. So things just keep getting better and better for Barack Obama.” -David Letterman
“In Florida, voting officials turned down a request for a nudist-only voting booth. That’s true, yeah. The officials said they were afraid that nudists would pull the wrong lever.” -Conan O’Brien
“I’m no pundit, I’m no expert, but McCain needed Cheney’s endorsement like I need more Lehman Brothers stock.” -David Letterman
“How about that Hillary? She’s all upset because they have been using her recorded message of her criticizing Barack Obama. The McCain campaign got ahold of this audio where Hillary is saying unflattering things about Barack Obama, and they’re using them now. They call it one of those robocalls. Do you ever get some of those? Hillary is furious, because she wanted to make those calls herself.” -David Letterman
“According to the latest AP poll, Ralph Nader is getting less than 1%. Less than 1%. How embarrassing, he’s actually losing to low fat milk.” -Jay Leno
“Barack Obama was joined on stage by Bruce Springsteen in Ohio on Sunday. There was one tense moment when somebody in the audience yelled out, ‘Born in the USA!’ And Obama said, ‘For the last time, yes, dammit, I was!” -Jimmy Kimmel
“You may have heard about this. I understand Senator Larry Craig got arrested for tapping his foot in the voting booth next to him. He has a wide voting stance, apparently. Well here’s the really disturbing part. Turns out Senator Craig actually registered to vote under the name ‘Dangling Chad.'” -Jay Leno
“I can’t believe this happened. Over the weekend, a comedian, I guess on the radio, tricked Sarah Palin into getting on the phone by pretending he was French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Yeah, the comedian says it was really difficult to trick Palin into believing he was Nicolas Sarkozy, because she has no idea who that is. No clue.” -Conan O’Brien
“Tonight at midnight in Arizona, this is the latest, John McCain appeared at his final campaign event, which is being called the midnight road to victory. Yeah. Of course, for McCain, the midnight road to victory is the hallway between his bedroom and bathroom.” -Conan O’Brien
If this election had been held two years ago
Exactly two years ago, the polling firm SurveyUSA interviewed 30,000 voters spread evenly by state, asking them how they would vote in a 2008 Presidential Election between John McCain and Barack Obama. Here are the results:
In this poll, Obama took his home state of Illinois, his birth state of Hawaii, and DC, for a total of 28 Electoral Votes. McCain took everything else, for a total of 510 Electoral Votes.
Sometime in the next few hours, we will know just how much we have changed as a nation.
Palin’s own Troopergate investigation clears her
In a result that will surprise nobody, the Alaska State Personnel Board’s Troopergate report has been released, and it clears Palin of any wrongdoing. The three members of the Personnel Board are appointed by Palin. In fact, Palin initiated this investigation by filing an ethics complaint against herself.
These results directly contradict the findings from the bipartisan investigation conducted by the Alaska state legislature, which found that Palin violated state law and had committed serious ethics violations.








